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What is a versicle?

What is a versicle? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. In poetry and songs, particularly hymns, one of a series of lines that are shorter than a standard line of verse.
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But, more to the point, he had a gift for writing a versicle, And a wit that was both wry and rather perversical.
Pieces like this may have been composed as a sort of trope on that versicle to be sung in the Divine Office.
And the versicle, 'Glory be to the Father,' etc., is then said.
After the repetition of the Antiphon at the end of the last Psalm of a Nocturn, is said the appropriate Versicle and Respond according to the Office of the Day.
And at the end of what seemed to be a versicle of his chant he called Bluebeard.
He gives a Sunday-school feast every year, which begins with a versicle and a response.

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